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Rebellyous Foods Raises $9.5M for Plant-Based Chicken’s “Next-Gen Meat Machine”

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Rebellyous Foods, the Seattle startup working to make plant-based chicken affordable, has announced a $9.5 million equity round to build its novel production technology. Founded in late 2017 by former aerospace engineer Christie Lagally, Rebellyous focuses on making plant-based meat better, faster, and cheaper through tech-backed solutions. “Next-gen meat machine” “During a tough economic slump, we are thrilled by this testament to investors’ belief in Rebellyous and price parity as a solution to sustained growth of plant-based meat in the marketplace,” said Lagally, who is also the company’s CEO. Rebellyous will use the significant investment to deploy its breakthrough equipment and build its Mock 2 — “next-gen meat machine”— capable of producing 10K lbs per hour, with one production line controlled by one person to bring …

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Rebellyous Reveals “World’s First” Vegan Nuggets at Price Parity With Chicken

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

Seattle’s Rebellyous Foods announces that, following three years of development, the company has produced what it says are the first restaurant-quality vegan nuggets at price parity to poultry, stating that these first iterations will allow the company to eventually outperform animal-based nuggets. Rebellyous, founded by former Boeing engineer Christie Lagally, says the nuggets were created using a proprietary system that will “reinvent” the process of producing vegan meat, fulfilling its original mission to make vegan meat affordable through the use of innovative technology. Reinventing the process of manufacturing plant-based meat The nuggets were created with Rebellyous’ patented novel production equipment called the Mock 1S, which has five patents pending, and according to the company “re-invents the process of manufacturing plant-based meat with continuous, automated, self-contained …

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Rebellyous Foods Arrives On East Coast, Wins KeHE On Trend Frozen Award

February 2, 2022February 1, 2022

Rebellyous Foods recently announced it has expanded its award winning plant-based nuggets and tenders into 66 Albertsons locations in the Mid-Atlantic region including Safeway and Acme stores. Rebellyous, whose investors include Clear Current Capital, CPT Capital, Agronomics, Vulcan Capital, and KBW Ventures, also announces it has received the KeHE On Trend® Frozen Award. The company reports that over 200 brands applied for the award and a team of judges chose Rebellyous’ plant-based nuggets as best in the frozen category after considering ingredients, innovation, taste, price, packaging, people, and purpose. “Not only are they kid tested and mom approved, but industry tastemakers agree that our plant-based nuggets are a stand out in the industry,” said Christie Lagally, founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods. “To boot, Rebellyous …

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Rebellyous Plant-Based Nuggets to be Served at Numerous K-12 Schools in the US

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Alt-meat brand Rebellyous has announced that its plant-based nuggets will be rolling out at school cafeterias in various California and Washington districts.

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Rebellyous Foods Names Former Beyond Meat Director as Head of Equipment Research and Development

August 17, 2021

Rebellyous Foods, the Seattle startup working to make plant-based chicken affordable by developing novel manufacturing equipment, announced yesterday that Puvin Pichai, previously of Beyond Meat, has joined the company as Director of Equipment Research and Development. Puvin is a chemical engineer with experience in food and fine chemical process and equipment design, development, pilot scaleup, and technology transfer for commercial manufacturing. Most recently as Director of Process Research at Beyond Meat, Puvin led the Innovation Engineering and Pilot teams where they designed and manufactured novel components, as well as conducted trials to optimize process conditions and produce prototype samples. He previously held a senior management position in directed research and engineering teams at Novus International. He holds a BA magna cum laude in Chemistry from …

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Products & Launches

Rebellyous Foods Rolls Out Award-Winning Chicken Range in over 200 Safeway Stores

June 9, 2021

Seattle startup Rebellyous Foods has announced the expanded availability of its award-winning plant-based nuggets, as well as patties and tenders. As of this week, the products will be available at more than 200 Safeway stores in the Pacific Northwest. “We look forward to bringing the Rebellyion to all four corners of the U.S. and beyond in the months to come.” Founded by former Boeing engineer Christie Lagally, and backed by the vegan Saudi Prince Khaled amongst other high profile investors, the brand recently pivoted into retail as the consequences of the pandemic took their toll on the foodservice sector. Last month, Rebellyous Nuggets were awarded the New Product Award in the Plant-Based Protein category as part of the Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) 2021 sofi™ Awards. …

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Rebellyous Foods: “By Bringing Affordable Plant-Based Options Into New Markets, We’ll Make Plant-Based Eating More Accessible to Everyone”

March 4, 2021

Rebellyous Foods will be well known to most vegconomist readers as the chicken industry-disrupting foodtech company backed by the vegan Saudi Prince Khaled amongst other high profile investors. Rebellyous raised $6M in Series A funding in 2020 for its unique technology which produces cost-efficient, realistic chicken alternatives, and last month pivoted into retail with three new products.

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“A New Industry Standard For Taste” – Rebellyous Foods Pivots into Retail With New Products

February 3, 2021

Rebellyous Foods, the Seattle startup founded by former Boeing engineer Christie Lagally, announces it is adding three new products to its portfolio as it pivots into retail due to the effects of the pandemic on B2B. Backed by the vegan Saudi Prince Khaled amongst other high profile investors, the brand develops innovative technology specific to the plant-based meat industry to reduce production costs.

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No Harm, No Fowl: CEO of Rebellyous Foods, Christie Lagally, on The Plantbased Business Hour

May 19, 2020

On The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano, Boeing Mechanical Engineer and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, Christie Lagally, explains how she takes on the largest sector of the meat industry (chicken) by creating a delicious chicken nugget that can scale up in volume and scale down in price to truly replace chicken production.

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Rebellyous Foods’ Plant-Based Rebellyion Nuggets Finally Launch into US Retail

May 15, 2020

Rebellyous Foods has announced that its plant-based chicken nuggets will launch into select Seattle retailers next week. Just last month the Seattle brand, founded by former Boeing engineer Christie Lagally, raised $6M in Series A funding to make its vegan meat more affordable, which is the company’s mission in a nutshell.

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Rebellyous Foods Raises $6M in Series A Round to Make Plant-Based Meat Affordable

April 17, 2020

Rebellyous Foods, the startup developing innovative technology specific to the plant-based meat industry, announced today that it has raised $6M in Series A funding, co-led by Clear Current Capital, Fifty Years, and Liquid 2 Ventures. In addition to its production technology, Rebellyous crafts next-generation plant-based nuggets.

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Rebellyous ‘Chicken’ Nuggets Receive Further Investment From Agronomics Ltd.

April 6, 2020

Agronomics Limited has just announced that it has further invested US $99,999 into Rebellyous Foods, the US company formerly known as Seattle Food Tech that produces plant-based chicken nuggets. The investment will take Agronomics’s stake to 1.23% from 1.0%.

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Rebellyous Opens Vegan Chicken Factory in Old Meat Processing Plant

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019

Seattle startup Rebellyous has taken over an old West Seattle meat-processing plant with the aim to convert the building into a prototype vegan poultry factory, and has plans to convert further meat factories in the future.

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Rebellyous: “We Are Democratizing Plant-Based Meat to Offer a Better Product for Everyone!”

June 20, 2019June 19, 2019

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Rebellyous Foods (formerly Seattle Food Tech) is a food production startup creating plant-based meats for the food service industry, using innovative manufacturing technology to produce affordable plant-based meat at high volumes. We talked to Kristie Middleton, Vice President Business Development, about their company’s mission, current distribution and future plans.

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Rebellyous Challenges Big Chicken With New Technology to “Revolutionise Food Production”

December 8, 2021June 11, 2019

Vegan meat has a problem: plant-based meats can be two-to-five times more expensive than meat produced on a factory farm. This means that some of the people and institutions that would benefit the most from having healthy, protein-packed plant-based options can’t afford it. Former Boeing engineer Christie Lagally is on a mission to solve this problem.

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